198 HOUSE AND MAX, 



CHAPTEB XII. 



The Professional Eye Fashion and nature The curb Weight and size 

 O f bit The BEARING-EEIN Three kinds of bearing-rein The gag 

 bearing-rein Mechanical parallel The over-head rein Neck of the 

 horse Great ligament of the neck and its attachments Vertebrse of 

 neck and spine- Vertebrae and' railway buffers Arrangement of a 

 train The martingale Rattling of harness and tossing of heads 

 Sir Arthur Helps' opinion Effect of the gag bearing-rein on the 

 spine and feet The ' burr ' bit of America Mr. Henry Bergh's work 

 The locomotive and the horse. 

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WHAT a wonderful product of civilisation is the 

 Professional Eye 1 It begins to develop itself as soon 

 as man emerges from pure savagery, contenting itself 

 at first with the nose bone of the Australian, the 

 lip-disc of the Botocudo, and the tattooing of the 

 Marquesan and New Zealand -chief. It rests with 

 satisfaction upon the vagaries of fashion, upon the 

 furnishing of our houses, and the decoration of our 

 gardens. Therefore, that our horses should be sub- 

 ject to its sway is only to be expected. 



A few years ago, I met with a treatise on the 

 management of horses, in which the writer gives it 

 as his opinion that a thoroughbred horse, properly 

 harnessed, is the finest sight in the world. This 



